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A Community based application including exclusive games, activities and videos suited for people with autism. The latest version of Zac Browser offers the power to manage categories and content. It is now possible to set a time limit for the use of Zac Browser v3.0 Zac Browser 3.0 is now powered by an Intuitive Browser Framework providing even more power and flexibility.

I wish I had known about this last year. I had an autistic student for a year and a half (he moved after Christmas break) and this would have been amazing for him. If I get another one, I have a new resource, wahoo!

This seems like a great resource. I was unaware of this site as well.

This article discusses the need for accessibility for the disabled when using internet resources, particularly government resources and forms. Since such ones may have disabilities and may be older and potentially less familiar with the internet, extra effort must be given to ensure their access. While modifications to meet these needs are important, I was struck by the responsibility to ensure human support to such ones.

This is a good video that gives people an idea of why accessibility is so important and ways that it can be, and is, tested by others.

I think most educators want to provide the best possible environment, materials, and services for everyone and every need, but without complete awareness and leadership, we can either be oblivious to what we are lacking or overwhelmed at the gap that we need to fill. One of the speakers even said that her imagination can put herself in another person's shoes only so far because it is so hard to completely know what someone else's life experience is like.

This is a true problem. Our interpreter for our hearing impaired student is hearing impaired as well and she has challenges using the net. I work nexts to an older teacher who asks me quite often how to find things because he does not have a computer at home and does not use it often unless he is at school. Maybe if sites were more accessible and friendly he would be more proficient.

I chose this site because it gives stories and scenarios on how people with different disabilities use the web. It gives the barriers they face, and most importantly, ways to make the web more accessible for each disability. Rather than just tell us "what" or "why", this site actually tells us "how".

I found this article interesting because it addresses that although there are many resources available to web designers, people still aren't making their websites accessible to everybody. The one thing that caught my was about the WebVisum that allows the captcha images to be read. However, what really stood out to me was the captcha farms" where workers are paid to break the captcha code so that spammers can get past that. I know I find those captchas really annoying, so to think that people have found a way to break that, what are we going to have to do next to prove that it is a human trying to access it. Whatever might come next will make it even more difficult for people with disabilities to access the information they need.

Your article stated that although "There is plenty of guidance available, from legislation such as the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Equality Duty and specific recommendations in the form of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and even an enforcing body, the Equality and Human Rights Commission" the majority of websites are not accessible to everyone with disabilities. I wonder at what point more laws will be made to make sure they are accessible especially with more and more technology being used in the classroom. My concerns are who will be responsible to make everything accessible? The gen ed teacher, special ed teacher, school district? Someday, a parent will sue, because her child was not able to have access to the same technology as everyone else.

I found this article while I was researching something else. This article talks about the impact of Web 2.0 and increasing accessibility for all groups physically, socially, or economically disadvantaged. There is even a section about "older people", me. Us older people did not grow up using technology so sometimes things are inaccessible to us. It was summed up by this: "With Web 2.0, accessibility remains dependent on the willingness of providers to take it seriously and adhere to the accessibility guidelines.